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Introduction

Jisc Publications Router aims to streamline the process of depositing journal articles in an institutional repository. As described by Jisc:

"Jisc Publications Router is a messaging system that receives notifications about article publications from publishers and other sources (e.g. Europe PMC) and routes these using a matching algorithm to particular institutional repositories. At its simplest, a notification is simply a metadata package providing details of an article that has either been accepted for publication or has been published. The notification may also include the article text either embedded in the metadata or in associated binary files, for example PDF or WORD documents and graphics files." (see https://pubrouter.jisc.ac.uk/about/resources/)

PubRouter and Eprints

Jisc PubRouter is able to deposit directly into Eprints, either to a manage deposits queue or a review queue, using its in-built SWORD interface.

Two modes of integration are available:

Basic connection to an Eprints repository which requires no plugin and minimial (if any) configuration on the Eprints side. This results in deposits with a basic set of meta-data and, if available, article PDFs and related files. There are some limitations on populating particular meta-data fields, such as an attached document's License terms, however in these cases the relevant information is captured in the Eprint's Additional Information field.

Jisc PubRouter RIOXXplus Connector plugin for Eprints repositories that have the RIOXX2 plugin installed and enabled. This will populate the additional RIOXX fields with meta-data and will also populate other fields that the basic connection has to work-around. It also attaches document files where available. You will need to install this plugin from Eprints Bazaar and configure it - see further details below.

Note that to take advantage of PubRouter--Eprints integration you will need to establish a PubRouter account. Details on how to do this may be found on the PubRouter website: https://pubrouter.jisc.ac.uk/.

Jisc PubRouter RIOXXplus Connector Plugin

The Jisc PubRouter RIOXXplus Connector plugin, available from the Bazaar, receives input from Jisc PubRouter in the form of XML to describe an Article for automatic deposit in the repository. The plugin is designed to work with Eprints repositories that also have the RIOXX2 plugin installed and enabled. The plugin will create an Eprints record containing the received meta-data values and also the article PDF or other files where these are available.

The PubRouter data may also contain links to documents that are either hosted on the PubRouter or elsewhere. Where possible, documents are downloaded from the specified links and added to the newly created EPrint record. Documents hosted on the PubRouter are only accessible with the use of an API key that the repository must provide when requesting the document.

In order to receive data from PubRouter you will need an account (see previous section). You will also need to update the plugin's configuration file - details below.

For Developers

The plugin installation package is available from Eprints Bazaar and the source code is also available on GitHub.

Configure Plugin

This needs to be updated with your PubRouter API Key which is required so that the plugin can retrieve article PDFs and related files for attachment to the Eprint record. The API Key will be available once you have a PubRouter account; it is displayed at the top of your Account page - see highlighted field in screen-shot below (it contains dummy values):

The PubRouter API key is stored in the plugin configuration file at the line shown below and in the following screen-grabs: